The second edition of the European Ranking of Engineering Programs (EngiRank) puts Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) as the leader of the overall Portuguese ranking and among the 50 best institutions at European level, placing it in the top 25%. The results were announced today, 29 October, during the international seminar ‘Educating Engineers for an Innovative and Sustainable Europe’, in Brussels. This is the first time ULisboa has been included in this ranking.
The engineering disciplines considered for this ranking are, for the most part, areas of expertise that are exclusive or almost exclusive to Instituto Superior Técnico, within Universidade de Lisboa, such as Civil Engineering (23rd place out of 142), Mechanical Engineering (53rd place out of 176), Electrical Engineering (45th place out of 177), and disciplines where, despite the contribution of other ULisboa schools, Técnico expertise is also very prominent, such as Chemical Engineering (33rd place out of 168), Environmental Engineering (25th place out of 159), Materials Engineering (65th place out of 195) or Biomedical Engineering (33rd place out of 96).
Like the main rankings, EngiRank is organised into two sub-rankings, the general ranking and the subject rankings. In the latter, ULisboa leads in four of the seven subjects analysed: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering and Environmental Engineering. This ranking, promoted by the Polish institution ‘Perspektywy’ Education Foundation, analyses the performance of engineering schools or those with a strong teaching and research component in this field, with a geographical scope limited to the European Union, Switzerland and Norway. EngiRank is multidimensional and analyses contributions such as research, innovation, internationalisation and teaching quality, using data obtained entirely from public sources. It uses SCOPUS (for research and sustainable development indicators), CORDIS (for project information) and European databases on course accreditation by quality assurance agencies.
